The Mac OS X Leopard book how to do the things you want to do on your Mac. - Includes index

Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 9 Chapter Zero: Seven Things You’ll Wish You Had Known Before Reading This Book......Page 16 Chapter One: 20 Things Every New Mac User Needs to Know: If You’re New to the Mac, Start Here......Page 18 Working with Applications......Page 19 Switching Between Applications......Page 20 Using .Mac......Page 21 Where to Save Your Files......Page 22 Clearing Window Clutter Using Exposé......Page 23 Getting Back to Your Desktop......Page 24 Working with Finder Windows......Page 25 Finding Files on Your Mac......Page 26 Adding Things to Your Sidebar......Page 27 Deleting Files from Your Mac......Page 28 Keeping Things Organized......Page 29 Renaming Stuff......Page 30 Setting Up a Wireless Bluetooth Device......Page 31 Password Protecting Your Mac......Page 32 Backing Up Your Mac......Page 33 Retrieving Lost Files Using Time Machine......Page 34 What to Do If an Application Freezes......Page 35 Fixing Problems with Your Mac......Page 36 Burning Files to CD or DVD......Page 37 How to Set Up a Printer......Page 38 More Tips for Using Your Mac......Page 39 Chapter Two: Customizing Your Mac Your Way: How to Personalize Your Mac So It’s More, Well…You!......Page 42 Renaming Your Hard Disk......Page 43 Choosing a Different Desktop Background......Page 44 Your Own Photos as Desktop Backgrounds......Page 45 Put the Dock Where You Want It......Page 46 Colorizing Folders......Page 47 Using Custom Icons......Page 48 Choosing How Big You Want Your Icons......Page 49 Organizing Your Folders (Loose or Strict?)......Page 50 Seeing More Info on Your Files......Page 51 See Only What You Want on the Desktop......Page 52 See Time Displayed Your Way......Page 53 Making Everything Bigger......Page 54 Adding Custom Names for Your Labels......Page 55 Controlling What You See in Your Sidebar......Page 56 Customizing Your Colors......Page 57 Changing Your Highlight Color......Page 58 Picking a Screen Saver......Page 59 Choosing Your Alert Sound......Page 60 Adding Your Photo to Your Address Book......Page 61 No Photo Handy? Use Your Mac’s Camera......Page 62 Creating a Custom Login Photo......Page 63 Choosing When Your Mac Goes to Sleep......Page 64 Changing the Speed of Your Mouse......Page 65 Changing the Speed of Your Trackpad......Page 66 Choosing What’s in Your Dock......Page 67 Clearing the Clutter (Setting Up Spaces)......Page 68 Using Spaces......Page 69 Turning Off Menu Transparency......Page 70 Get to Your Stuff Quicker Using Stacks......Page 71 Choosing How Your Stacks Look......Page 72 Having Two People Use the Same Mac......Page 73 Switching Between Two (or More) Users......Page 74 More Tips for Customizing Your Mac......Page 75 Chapter Three: Getting Your Life Organized: Getting Your Contacts, Calendars, and Other Stuff Set Up......Page 78 Managing Your Contacts......Page 79 Add Yourself First. This Is Important......Page 80 Create Your Own Contact Template......Page 81 Getting Contacts into Your Address Book......Page 82 Searching for People in Your Address Book......Page 83 Getting More Organized by Using Groups......Page 84 Use Smart Groups to Organize Automatically......Page 85 Using Your Mac’s Calendar......Page 86 Adding Something to Your Calendar (Month)......Page 87 Adding to Your Day/Week View Calendar......Page 88 Moving an Event to a Different Time or Day......Page 89 Adding a Reminder Alarm to Your Event......Page 90 Creating Multiple Color-Coded Calendars......Page 91 Creating Events That Span Hours or Days......Page 92 Repeating an Event......Page 93 Adding a To Do to iCal’s To-Do List......Page 94 Editing Your To-Do Items......Page 95 Sharing Your Calendar with Other iCal Users......Page 96 More Address Book Tips......Page 97 More iCal Tips......Page 98 Chapter Four: Unlocking Your Mac’s Dashboard: How to Make Your Mac Bring You the Info You Need......Page 100 Launching Dashboard......Page 101 Using the Built-In Widgets (i.e., Weather)......Page 102 Adding More Widgets (Monitoring More Cities)......Page 103 Closing Widgets......Page 104 Hiding Widgets You Don’t Need......Page 105 Getting More Widgets......Page 106 Deleting Widgets......Page 107 Other Ways to Bring Up Dashboard......Page 108 Creating Web Clips......Page 109 My Favorite Widgets......Page 110 More Tips for Using Dashboard......Page 111 Chapter Five: Getting Email on Your Mac: Plus, How to Leverage Your Mac’s Mail to Keep Organized......Page 114 Setting Up Your Email Account......Page 115 Setting Things Up to Receive Incoming Mail......Page 116 Setting Things Up So You Can Send Email......Page 117 One Final Step and You’re Done......Page 118 Sending an Email Message......Page 119 Customizing Your Email Text......Page 120 Using Email Templates......Page 121 Setting Up Your Email Signature......Page 122 Checking for Incoming Email......Page 123 Replying to Email......Page 124 Sending a Photo or File with Your Email......Page 125 Organizing Your Email......Page 126 Dealing with Junk Mail (Spam)......Page 127 Parental Controls for Email......Page 128 Mail’s Built-In To-Do List and Notes......Page 129 Using Mail’s RSS Reader......Page 130 Doing Text & Audio Chats Using iChat......Page 131 Adding the Friends You Want to Chat With......Page 132 Finding Out Who’s Available to Chat......Page 133 Letting Your Buddies Know If You Can Chat......Page 134 Actually Carrying On a Text Chat......Page 135 Doing an Audio (Voice) Chat......Page 136 More Mail Tips......Page 137 Chapter Six: Music and Your Mac: You Can Do More Than Just Listen to Music; You Can Make It, Too......Page 140 Playing an Audio CD on Your Mac......Page 141 Getting Music onto Your Mac from a CD......Page 142 Finding Music in the iTunes Store......Page 143 Buying Songs from the iTunes Store......Page 144 Getting Other Music into iTunes......Page 145 Making a Playlist of Your Favorite Songs......Page 146 Getting Music from Your Mac onto an iPod......Page 147 Hearing a Song Without iTunes......Page 148 Burning an Audio CD......Page 149 Using External Speakers with Your Mac......Page 150 Recording Music on Your Mac......Page 151 Making Your Own Music with GarageBand......Page 152 Using the Built-In Pre-Recorded Music Tracks......Page 153 Adding Drums to Your Song (Hey, It’s a Start)......Page 154 Adding the Bass Track......Page 155 Adding Keyboards and Saving Your Song......Page 156 More Tips for Music on Your Mac......Page 157 Chapter Seven: Playing and Making Videos on Your Mac: Your Mac Is Half Movie Theater, Half Movie Studio. Here’s How to Use Both......Page 160 Watching a DVD on Your Mac......Page 161 Watching Videos Using the QuickTime Player......Page 162 Watching Movies Using Quick Look......Page 163 How to Get a Video on YouTube.com......Page 164 Watching Video Using Front Row......Page 165 Doing a One-on-One Video Chat......Page 166 Doing a Three-Way Video Chat......Page 167 Buying Movies Online......Page 168 Renting Movies......Page 169 Recording Video with Your Built-In Camera......Page 170 Getting Video into Your Mac (Using iMovie)......Page 171 Where the Video You Imported Winds Up......Page 172 Putting Your Video Clips into Your Movie......Page 173 Adding Transitions to Your Movie......Page 174 Adding Music to Your Movie......Page 175 Putting Your Own Movies on DVD......Page 176 More Tips for Using Video on Your Mac......Page 177 Chapter Eight: Managing Your Photos with iPhoto: How to Keep Track of, Organize, and Have Fun with Your Photos......Page 180 Getting Photos onto Your Mac, Step 1......Page 181 Getting Photos onto Your Mac, Step 2......Page 182 Getting Photos onto Your Mac, Step 3......Page 183 Putting Your Favorite Photos One Click Away......Page 184 Sorting Your Photos in iPhoto......Page 185 Cropping Photos......Page 186 Removing Red Eye......Page 187 Fixing Your Color, Brightness, and More......Page 188 One-Click Special Effects (Like Black & White)......Page 189 Creating Slide Shows in iPhoto......Page 190 Adding Music to Your iPhoto Slide Show......Page 191 Emailing Your Slide Show to Other People......Page 192 Putting Your iPhoto Slide Show on a DVD......Page 193 Emailing Photos (from iPhoto)......Page 194 Putting Your Photos on the Web Using .Mac......Page 195 Finding Your Online Gallery......Page 196 Choosing the Look of Your Online Gallery......Page 197 Updating Your Online Web Gallery......Page 198 How to Hide an Online Gallery......Page 199 Making Photo Books: Choosing Your Theme......Page 200 Making Photo Books: Arranging Your Photos......Page 201 Making Photo Books: Customizing Backgrounds......Page 202 Making Photo Books: Changing Layouts......Page 203 Making Photo Greeting Cards......Page 204 Creating Photo Calendars......Page 205 Sending Out for Prints......Page 206 Printing Your Own Photos......Page 207 More Tips for Using iPhoto on Your Mac......Page 208 Chapter Nine: Working with Photos on Your Mac: How to Make Your Still Images Come to Life......Page 210 Downloading Photos from the Web......Page 211 Importing Photos Without iPhoto......Page 212 Viewing Photos Using Quick Look......Page 213 Seeing an Instant Slide Show......Page 214 Should You Use Preview to View Photos?......Page 215 Create Your Own Photos Using Photo Booth......Page 216 Adding Effects to Your Photo Booth Photos......Page 217 Different Backgrounds in Photo Booth......Page 218 Use Your Own Backgrounds Instead......Page 219 Viewing Your Photos Using Front Row......Page 220 Emailing Photos (Using Mail)......Page 221 Make a Photo Your Desktop Background......Page 222 Make an iPhoto Album Your Screen Saver......Page 223 More Tips for Using Photos on Your Mac......Page 224 Chapter Ten: Getting On the Internet: Anyone Can Look at Webpages; Now You Can Make Your Own!......Page 226 Using the Safari Web Browser......Page 227 Saving a Favorite Page as a Bookmark......Page 228 Where to Save Bookmarks (the Menu or Bar?)......Page 229 Organizing Your Bookmarks......Page 230 One Click to Load a Folder Full of Sites......Page 231 Revisiting Sites You’ve Already Visited......Page 232 Keeping Where You’ve Been Private......Page 233 Connecting Your Mac to the Internet......Page 234 Use AutoFill to Make Online Shopping Easier......Page 235 Finding a Word on a Webpage......Page 236 Customizing Safari’s Toolbar......Page 237 Connecting to a Wireless Internet Hot Spot......Page 238 Creating a Website Using iWeb, Part 1......Page 239 iWeb: Adding Your Own Text and Photos......Page 240 iWeb: Adding Links to Other Sites......Page 241 iWeb: Adding More Pages......Page 242 Creating a Blog Using iWeb......Page 243 iWeb: Adding Entries to Your Blog......Page 244 iWeb: Creating Your Own Podcast......Page 245 Putting Your Website, Blog, or Podcast on the Web......Page 246 More Safari Tips......Page 247 B......Page 249 C......Page 250 E......Page 251 F......Page 252 I......Page 253 M......Page 255 N......Page 256 P......Page 257 S......Page 258 V......Page 260 Y......Page 261 This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.With so many books out there on Mac OS X Leopard, what makes this one better and different is its focus. While other Leopard books can regularly be 500-plus pages, this book cuts through all the technical jargon and gives you exactly what you want: the most important, most requested, and just plain coolest things about Leopard that will change the way you work on your Mac. With Leopard's newest features, this book will show you how to customize your workspace with Spaces, search and view your files fast with Quick Look, restore any file on your system with Time Machine, and much more. Each page covers just one topic, complete with full-color photos and screenshots, making it easy to find what you're looking for fast.

with So Many Books Out There On Mac Os X Leopard, What Makes This One Better And Different Is Its Focus. While Other Leopard Books Can Regularly Be 500-plus Pages, This Book Cuts Through All The Technical Jargon And Gives You Exactly What You Want: The Most Important, Most Requested, And Just Plain Coolest Things About Leopard That Will Change The Way You Work On Your Mac. With Leopard's Newest Features, This Book Will Show You How To Customize Your Workspace With Spaces, Search And View Your Files Fast With Quick Look, Restore Any File On Your System With Time Machine, And Much More. Each Page Covers Just One Topic, Complete With Full-color Photos And Screenshots, Making It Easy To Find What You're Looking For Fast.